Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape

The preoccupation with the relationship between landscape and aesthetics has now produced a large number of publications. The positions represented range from essentialist interpretations, attempts to operationalize ‘aesthetic qualities’ in a positivist way, constructivist interpretations, to approaches that presage the phenomenological experience. Since numerous survey works can also be found on the topic of aesthetics, we will address the foundations of aesthetics in general and landscape aesthetics in particular only to the extent necessary to develop our neopragmatic aesthetic approach.